Summary of QualificationsDick Jacobs is a results-oriented Healthcare IT professional with over 20 years of healthcare experience as a clinical pharmacist specializing in informatics and healthcare information and data management. Ten of those years were spent in progressively designing, analyzing, supporting and testing software development. He is a self-motivated team player whose unique combination of technical and professional experience provides the ability to effectively communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audience’s at all organizational levels. Strengths include problem solving, an innate ability to learn new applications quickly and to adapt to different industries and technologies. Dick has a strong understanding of the pharmacy and healthcare profession and the underlying technologies that drive it. Dick also has very strong and unique problem solving skills as evidenced by supporting large university medical centers, multi-facility health care entities and small regional hospitals with the implementation and support of electronic medical records and CPOE including: Functional design of medication and non-medication ordering, dispensing, charting, billing and crediting. Dick has also supported the implementation of e-prescribing, medication reconciliation, bar code medication charting, dose range and duplicate therapy checking, report creation (using SQL queries and data access tools) and numerous other functionalities comprising an electronic health medical record. He also has the ability to identify functional requirements necessary to support the various work flows within a healthcare setting along with the ability to convert those requirements into end user functionality.Specialties: administration, adobe go live, analysis, client/server, communication skills, community hospitals, council, data collection, data entry, data management, database administration, decision support, features, firewalls, functional, java, msn, project management, quality control, reports, servers, shell scripting, speechwriting, sql, staffing, user interface design, web servers,
Listed skills include Sql, Database Administration, Analysis, Administration, and 22 others.